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Book v &t . 



COMPILATION OF LAWS 



RELATING TO 



COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM 



AND 



List of State Educational Institutions 



OF 



OEioi^ca-i-^. 



1903, 



ATLANTA, QA. 
Geo. W. Haerison, State Pbintee 
(The'Fbanklin Printing and Publishing Co. 
February, 1903 



COMPILATION OF LAWS 



RELATING TO 



COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM 



AND 



List of State Educational Institutions 



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v\ OF 



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1903. 



ATLANTA, GA. 
Geo. W. Harrison, State Printer 
<The Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. 
February, 1903 



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TABLE OF TITLES. 



Part L — State Board of Education. 

IL — State School Commissioner. 
HI. — County Board of Education. 
IV. — County School Commissioner. 

V. — Financial. 
VI. — Long Term Schools — Teachers' Re- 
ports. 
VII. — County Institutes. 
VIII. — Examination of Applicants for Teach- 
er's License. 
X. — Miscellaneous. 
XL — General Laws. 
XII. — List of State Educational Institu- 
tions. 



n Note. — The whole of the school laws were " amended, re- 
vised and consolidated" by an Act approved in 1887, hence 
DO reference is made in the marginal indices to Acts^ ap- 
proved at any time prior to that year. 



SCHOOL LAWS. 



PART I. 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
, , , Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly «* ^ 

Acts of ,- 1 o r r\ • 1 • • 1 1 , , tstate 

1687, page ot the btatc oi Lxeorgia, and it is hereby enacted by^oardof 
authority of the same, That the Governor, the At- 
torneys-General, Secretary of State, the ComptroUer- 
General, and the State School Commissioner shall 
constitute the Georgia State Board of Education. 
Of this Board the Governor shall be ex officio Presi- 
dent, and the State School Commissioner the chief the BoaJd 
executive officer. The Clerk of the State School 
Commissioner, as hereinafter provided for, shall be 
the Clerk of the State Board of Education. He cierk of 
shall be the custodian of its records, papers, and* eBoar . 
effects, and keep minutes of its proceedings, and 
said records, papers, and minutes shall be kept in 
the office of the Commissioner, and shall be open to 
inspection. 

Acts of Sec. 2. That the said Board shall meet, upon the Meetings. 

1887, page q^lU of its President or a majority of its members, ai 
the office of the State School Commissioner at th<. 
Capitol, or at such other place as may be designated 
in the call. A majority of the Board shall constitute Quorum. 
a quorum for transacting business. 

Sec. '^. That said Board may take and hold, to it 

Acts of -I •, ^ • . . r ,1 o, , . Donations 

1887, page and its succcssors, m trust for the btate, any grant for educa- 
^^' or devise of lands, or any donation or bequest of p°^g^J p"""' 

money, or other personal property, made to it for 
educational purposes, and shall forthwith place in 



■6 Common School Laws. 

^^T5yf f the hands of the Treasurer of the State for safe- 
ana titles to 

land dona- keeping all moneys and personal property so re- 
bySta^te ceived, and titles to land, taking therefor a receipt 
Treasurer. £j-qj^ g^j^^ ofificer. When it is evidently the inten- 
tion of the donor or devisor that the corpus of 
moneys thus received is not to be used, the General 
General Assembly may, from time to time, invest said 
m?ykivl^st uioncys in the name of the State; provided, that all 
donations, moneys obtained under this section, together with 
the profits accruing from their investment, shall bt 
subject to use only for educational purposes. The 
fe'c°t^/o use^' Treasurer of the State shall pay to the order of the 
foreduca- Board the income or principal thereof as said Board 

tional pur- . . ^ ^ . . 

poses only, may, from time to time, require m pursuance of law, 
but no disposition of any devise, donation or be- 
quest shall be made inconsistent with the condi- 
^ tions or tenor of the devise, donation or bequest 
For the faithful keeping of all property or moneys 
Treasurer SO rcccivcd by the Treasurer, he shall be responsible, 
up^on his^^^ upon his bond to the State, as for other funds re- 
bond. ceived by him in his official capacity. 

Sec. 4. That the State Board of Education shall ^^^^ of 
procure a suitable seal, which shall be used for the 69' 
authentication of the acts of the Board and the im^ 
portant acts of the State School Commissioner. 

Sec. 5. That the State Board of Education shall ^c^s of ^ 
ry^hody and constitute an advisory body, with whom the State 69."^'' 
appeals'^ School Commissioner shall have the right to consult 
from decis- when he is in doubt as to his official dutv ; and also 

ions of S. . -. ' 

s. c. a body in the nature of a court* to which appeals 

shall be from the decision of the State School Com- 

Appeais. missioner upon any question touching the construc- 
tion or administration of the school laws ; and the 
decision of the State Board, when rendered, shall be 
final and conclusive upon the matter in issue. Ap- 
peals to the State Board must be made through the 
County Commissioner in writing, and must distinctly 



ComniGn ScJiaol Lairs. 

set forth the question at law, as well as the facts, in 
the case upon which the appeal is taken. Upon any 
question involving the construction or administra- 
tion of the school laws, the concurrence of a majority 
of the whole Board shall be necessary in order to give 
validity to the decision. 



Board of Education is authorized to admiuister oaths (Sec. 29) ; Bo^rd^o"/ 

selects time for operatins: schools (Sec. 34). Education 

■^ ° ^ found in 

other sec- 
tions. 



Common School Laws. 



PART 11. 



STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. 



Sec. 6. There shall be a State School Commis- 



Acfs of 



Elected. 



Charged 
with admin- 
istration of 
the school 
aws. 



Prescribes 
forms. 



Instruc- 
tions. 



Subordi- 
nate officers 
governed in 
the dis- 
charge of 
official du- 
ties by in- 
structions 
of State 
School 
Commis- 
sioner. 

Visits 
counties. 



sioner elected by the people at the same time and i894, page' 
manner as the Governor and State house officers ^^" 
are elected, whose term of office shall be two years 
and until his successor is elected and qualified. His 
office shall be at the seat of government and he 
shall be paid a salary not to exceed two thousand 
dollars ($2,000) per annum. The General Assembly 
may substitute for the State School Commissioner 
such officer or officers as may be deemed necessary 
to perfect the system of public education."^ He shall 
be charged with the administration of the school 
laws, and a general superintendence of the business 
relating to the common schools of the State. He 
shall prescribe suitable forms for the reports re- 
quired of subordinate school officers and blanks for " 
their s^uidance in transacting their official business. Acts of 

1 , 11 r • • 1 , •' 1887, page 

and shall, from time to time, prepare and transmit 69. 
to th-em such instructions as he may deem necessary 
for the faithful and efficient execution of the school 
laws, and by whatsoever is thus communicated tO' 
them shall they be bound to govern themselves in 
the discharge of their official duty; provided, never- 
theless, there shall always be an appeal from the 
State School Commissioner to the State Board of 
Education as hereinbefore enacted. 

Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of the State School 
Commissioner to visit, as often as possible, the sev- 

Acts of 

1887, page 

*The above, which is an amendment to the Constitution, was rati- 6-9 
fled at an election held in 1896. ; 



Common School Laws. 



9 



Acts of 
1887, page 
70. 



Acts of 
1887, page 



Amended 
Acts ot 
1892, page 

85. 



Actsot 
1887 page 
71. 



eral counties of the State for the purpose of examin- ^^o'^d^fn. 
ing into the administration of the school law in saia istration of 
counties, of counseling with school officers, of de- Delivers 
livering popular addresses, of inspecting school addresses. 
operations, and of doing such other acts as he may opSatSn 
deem subservient to the interests of popular educa- "' schools. 
tion. 

Sec. 8. The State School Commissioner shall see state 
that the proper actions provided by law are Drougni commis- 
against all ofificers and agents of the system, who are f^g^ftuJe 
liable to the same, for misapplication of the school suits. 
fund or other cause. 

Sec. 9. That the State School Commissioner shall Report ot 
make an annual report to the General Assembly, H^^^^ 
in which he shall present a statement of the condi- Commis- 

r 11 r 1 1 • sioner. 

tion and amount of all funds and property appropri- contents. 
ated to the purpose of public education ; a state shaii be 
ment of the number of common and public schools. ™^f^ify^"" 
of the various grades, in the State ; the number of 
scholars attending such schools ; their sex, color, 
and the branches taught; a statement of the aver- 
age cost per scholar of instruction under the com- 
mon school system in each county ; a statement o! 
the plans for the management, extension, and im- 
provement of the common schools ; a statement oi 
the number of children of school age in the State, J^poVt^°^ 
with as much accuracy as the same can be ascer- 
tained ; also, a statement of the number of private 
schools and colleges of the different kinds in the 
State; the number of pupils in such schools or col- 
leges, their sex, the branches taught, the average 
cost of tuition per scholar in said schools and col- 
leges. 

Sec. 10. That the State School Commissioner shall salary and 
be entitled to receive for his services the sum oi e^P^^ses. 
two thousand dollars annually in quarterly install- ^^^^^^^ ^^ 
ments. All his necessary traveling expenses in- o^^^JJ^'*^ 
curred in the performance of his official duties, and ^ 



10 Common School Laws. 

all postage and other expenses absolutely necessary 
arising in his office, shall be paid by the State. Ht 
Clerk of shall also be entitled to employ one clerk to aid him 
sSooi in his official duties. His clerk shall receive an 
uommis- annual salary, not exceeding twelve hundred dol- 
lars, to be paid quarterly. The salaries and othei 
Paid out of expenses named in this section shall be paid out oi 
lch?oi the State school fund on executive warrant. It 
fund. shall also be the duty of said Commissioner to keep 

an itemized account of all expenses connected with 
account to his department, which account shall be audited, b} 
be kept. ^j^^ 3^^^^ gQ^j.^ Q^ Education. 

Sec. II. That before entering upon the discharge 
of his official duties, the said Commissioner shall ^^^^ ^^ 
take and subscribe to the same oath required of other isst, page 



Oath. 



officers of this State. 



Duties of 

State 

fccfiool 



Commis- State School Commissioner is member of State Board of Edu- 

f'u^'d^in cation (Sec. i); uses seal (Sec. 4). 



other 
sections. 



Common School Laws. 11 

PART III. 
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

Sec. 12. That hereafter each and every county in Each coun- 
is87!page the State shall compose one school district, and shall dlsfrfct.°° 
''^' be confided to the control and management of a 

County Board of Education. 
Acts of Sec. 13. That the grand jury of each county (ex- Selection, 

62. ' ^^^^ cept those counties which are under a local system) ?ions and 
in this State shall from time to time select from the [^^^^ °| 
citizens of their respective counties five freeholders, members. 
v^ho shall constitute the County Board of Educa- 
tion. Said members shall be elected for the term of 
four years, and shall hold their offices until their ^^'^gi'^kl' 
successors shall be elected and qualified; provided, 
however, that no publisher of school-books, nor any 
agent for such publisher, nor any person who shall 
be pecuniarily interested in the sale of school-books, p^^^^^^g 5^^. 
shall be elisfible for election as member of any Board terested in 
of Education or as County School Commissioner of school 
any county in .this State ; provided further, That \^^^l ^"^^" 
whenever there is in a portion of any county a 
local school system having a Board of Education 
of its own, and receiving its pro rata of the public Members 
Acts of school fund directly from the State School Com- ^S\fom'^' 
1897, page jj-^-gg-^j^^^^ ^^^ haviug uo dealings whatever with '^H^^^^^^ 

the County Board of Education, then the members deaH°|^,j^. 
of the County Board of Education of such county ty Board oi 

■^ , - , . p ,1 , Education. 

shall be selected from that portion of the county 
not embraced within the territory covered by such 
local system. 
Acts of ' Sec. 14. That the members of the Board of Edu- compensa- 
1895, page ^^^-^^ -^ ^^^j^ couuty shall each be paid a per diem *^°"- 



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Com7)ion School Laws. 



Clerk of 
Superior 
Court cer- 
tifies to 
election. 



Removal 
from office 
of members 
of board. 



Vacancies 
filled by 
Judges of 
Superior 
Court. 



President 
of board. 



Secretary. 



not to exceed two dollars for each da3^'s actual ser- 
vice out of the school fund apportioned to the county ;, 
and their accounts for service shall be submitted for 
approval to the Ordinary or County School Commis- 
sioner ;- and they shall not receive any other compen- 
sation, such as exemption from road and jury duty. 

Sec. 15. That whenever members of a County 
Board are elected or appointed in pursuance of the 
provisions of the above section, it shall be the duty 
of the Clerk of the Superior Court to forward to the 
State School Commissioner a certified statement of 
the facts, under the seal of the court, signed ofhcially 
by him, as evidence upon which to issue commis- 
sions, and the corresponding evidence of the election 
of a County Commissioner shall be the certified 
statement of the Secretary pro tern, of the meeting 
of the Board at which the election was held. Any 
member or members of the County Board of Educa- 
tion shall be removable by the judges of the Supe- 
rior Court of the county, on the address of two- 
thirds of the grand jury, for inefficiency, incapacity,, 
general neglect of duty, or malfeasance or corrup- 
tion in oiBce ; that the Judge of the superior Courts 
of this State shall have the power to fill vacancies 
by appointment in the County Boards of Education 
for the counties composing their respective judicial 
circuits, until the next session of the grand juries in 
and for said counties, when said vacancies shall be 
filled by said grand juries. 

Sec. 16. That the Board of Education shall elect 
one of their number President, who shall serve as 
such during the term for M^hich he was chosen a 
member of the Board. The County School Commis- 
sioner shall be ex officio Secretary of the Board. A 
majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for 
the transaction of business. It shall be the duty of 
said Secretary to be present at the meetings of the 



Acts of 
188T, page 



Acts of 
1887, page 
72. 



Common School Laws. 13 

Board, and to record in a book, to be provided for 

the purpose, all their official proceedings, which Minutes. 

shall be a public record open to the inspection of any 

person interested therein, and all such proceedings, ord^open^to 

when so recorded, shall be signed by the President inspection. 

and countersigned by the Secretary. 

Sec. 17. That it shall be the duty of the County sessions. 
ifc87^° Board of Education to hold regular sessions on the 
page 72, f^j-^^ Tucsday of the month succeeding their election, 
, , and each three months thereafter, at the court-house 

Amended - - , , . ^ , . 

acts of 1893, OT the couuty for the transaction of business pertam- 
page62. -^^g. ^^ ^j^^ public schools, with power to adjourn ■ 

from time time, and in the case of the absence of the 
President or Secretary, they may appoint one of their 
own number to serve temporarily. 

Sec. 18. That the County Boards shall lay off their 
\m^^ counties into sub-school districts, in each of which 5fst"j.fj['s°°^ 
page 124 sub-school districts they shall establish one common 
school each for the white and colored races where 
fcTsTn889, the population of the two races is sufficient, which 
page 124. ' schools shall be as near the center of the sub-school ^cSh." °^ 
districts as can conveniently be arranged, reference 
being had to any schoolhouse already erected, and 
population of said sub-school district, and to the 
location of white and colored schools with regard to 
contiguity; provided, hozuever, that in such sub-school 
districts where more than one school is demanded, 
then they may establish one or more additional schools."^ 
schools in such sub-school district ; and provided also, 
that whenever it becomes proper to lay off new sub- 
school districts, or alter the boundaries of those Boundaries 
already laid off, the said Board shall have full power 
to make such changes as the public necessities may 
require. The said County Boards are also empow- Board ^ 
ered to employ teachers in the manner hereinafter teachers. 
pointed out, to' serve in the schools under their juris- 



14 Common School Laws. 

diction, and the contracts for said service shall be 
Csntracts in writing, signed in duplicate by the teacher on his Acts 1889, 
own behalf and by the County School Commissioner ^^^^ 
on behalf of the Board. That the County Boards of 
Education, whenever, in their opinion, the good of 
the schools in their respective counties demand it, 
may, at their discretion, at their first meeting after 
the passage of this law, appoint three intelligent, 
upright citizens of each sub-district of their respec- 
Schooi tive counties to act as school trustees for their sub- 

trustees. .... . , 

districts, naming one of the appointees to serve for 
one year, and one for two, and one for three years ; 
and as vacancies occur by the expiration of the 
terms of incumbents, the Boards shall fill those 
vacancies with appointees whose term of service 
vacancies, sliall be three years ; and should vacancies occur by 
death, resignation, or otherwise, the Boards of Edu- 
cation shall fill these vacancies for the unexpired 
term ; and whenever School Trustees are chosen as 
herein provided, the fact shall be recorded in the 
Certificates miuutes of the County Boards, and the appointees 
of appoint- shall receive certificates of their appointment from 

ment irom , ,^ r^ a -i r-\ • • i 

County the County School Commissioner, and these certm- 

Commis- catcs shall be their sufficient warrant for entering 

sioner. upon and performing the duties of their oi^ce. That 

T^ ,. , it shall be the duty of the School Trustees herein 

Duties of . , , . -' . . 

school provided for to supervise the school operations of 
their sub-disti-icts, to visit the schools, and to make 
such recommendations to the County Boards, in re- 
lation to the school interests of their sub-districts, as 
may seem to them best, and especially in the matter 
of choosing teachers for their sub-districts. It shall 
^r^ustees ^c their right to recommend applicants, and it shall 
recom- ^g i\^q (j^ty of the Couuty Boards to choose as teach- 

raend ap- -' -^ • 7 j i 111 

piicants for ers the persons so recommended; proviaea, they shall 

p^iaces."^^ be persons duly qualified and eligible according to 

the provisions of existing law; and furthermore, it 



Common School Laius. 15- 

shall be the duty of the School Trustees, in recom- -j-^ustee 
mending persons as teachers, to recommend those make an 
persons who, in their opinion, are the choice of the uTiiten re- 
communities to be served ; and it shall, furthermore, gouVty 
be the duty of the School Trustees to make a written Boards, 
report, once a year, to the County Boards in rela- 
tion to the matters committed to their supervision, 
or oftener if required by the County Boards of Educa- 
tion. 

Sec. IQ. That the County Boards of Education school 

1 11 1 11 11 property.. 

^ggs shall have power to purchase, lease, or rent s(^,hool 

page 73. sitcs ; to build, repair, or rent schoolhouses ; to pur- 
chase maps, globes and school furniture, and to 
make all other arrangements of this kind necessary 
to the efihcient operation of the schools under their 
care ; and the said Boards shall also be, and are here- 
by, invested with the title, care, and custody of all 
schoolhouses, sites, school libraries, apparatus, or 
other property belonging to the sub-districts, as now 
defined, or as may hereafter be defined, in their sev- 
eral counties, with all power to control the same, in 
such manner as they think will best subserve the 
interests of common schools ; and when, in the opin- 
ion of the Board, any schoolhouse site has become 
unnecessary or inconvenient, they may sell and con- g^j^ 
vey the same in the name of the County Board of 
Education, such conveyance to be executed by the 
President or Secretary of said Board according to 
the order of the Board. They shall have power to 
receive any gift, grant,, donation, or devise made for Donations, 
the use of common . schools within their respective 
counties ; and all conveyances of real estate which Property 
may be made to said Board shall vest the property ^^^^c'omm- 
in said Board of Education and their successors in |^^ be^^^^^^ted 
office. It shall also be the duty of said Board of Board of 

,. ,1 • , ,• h-ducation. 

Education to make arrangements for the mstructron 



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Common School Laws. 



Eaces 

taught 

separately. 



Building of 

school 

houses. 



Hegulate 
length of 
school 
term. 



County 
Board a 
judicial 
tribunal.. 



Appeal to 

State 

School 

Commis- 



Text books. 



of the children of the white and colored races in sep- 
arate schools. They shall, as far as practicable, pro- 
vide the same facilities for both races in respect to 
attainments and abilities of teachers and length of 
term;-time; but the children of the white and colored 
races shall not be taught together in any common or 
public school of this State ; and in respect to the 
building of the schoolhouses mentioned in this sec- 
tion, the said Board of Education may provide for 
the same, either by labor on the part of the citizens 
of sub-districts to be served, or by a tax on their prop- 
erty, as may be hereinafter provided. 

The several County Boards of Education of this 
State shall have full power and authority to define and 
regulate the length of the public school terms of their 
respective counties. 

Sec. 20. That the county Board of Education 
shall constitute a tribunal for hearing and determin- 
ing any matter of local controversy in reference to 
the construction or administration of the school law, 
with power to summon witnesses and take testimony 
if necessary; and when they have made a decision, 
said decision shall be binding upon the parties to the 
controversy ; provided, that either of the parties 
shall have the right to appeal to the State School 
Commissioner, and said appeal shall be made 
throught the County Commissioner in writing, and 
shall distinctly set forth the question in dispute, the 
decision of the County Board and the testimony, as 
agreed upon by the parties to the controversy, or if 
they fail to agree, upon the testimony as reported 
by the Commissioner. 

Sec. 21. That the County Board of Education 
shall prescribe, from time to time, what text-books 
and books of reference shall be used in the common 
schools of the county ; provided, that the Bible shall 



Acts of 
]898, page 
71. 



Acts of 
1887, page 
74 



Acts of 
1887, page 
74. 



Common School Laws. ' 17 

not be excluded from the common or public schools ^i^ie can- 
of the State ; and provided further, that when such cfuded.^"" 
text-books are prescribed, they shall not be changed Length of 
for five years thereafter, except by a three-fourths how'''"^*~ 
vote of all the Board; and provided further, that the chrng-ed. 
County Boards shall not be permitted to introduce 
into the schools any text or miscellaneous book of a Books of 
sectarian or sectional character. No teacher shall ^ sectariaQ 

f. .1-1 Lv.«,^iiv,i oiia.i.1 or sectional 

receive pav for anv pupil who is allowed to use anv character 
other than the prescribed text-books. ' ^'°^'^'''^^ 

(For Act of 1897 relating to contracts for school books se^ 
page 48.) 



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Common School Laivs. 



County 
School 

Commis- 
sioner. 



Examina- 
tion. 



Questions 
lurnished 
by State 
School 
Com mis- 



Election. 



Bond. 



Oath. 



PART IV. 
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. 

Sec. 22. That the County Boards of Education ^g^l^ °*^^g 
shall, from the citizens of their counties, select a 74. ' 
County Commissioner of Education, who shall be ex 
officio county superintendent of the common schools, 
and who shall hold his ofhce for the term of four 
3''ears. Before election the applicants for positions of 
County School Commissioner shall be examined by 
the President of the County Board of Education, or 
by some one appointed by him or the Board for that 
purpose, upon written or printed questions, which' 
shall be furnished to the Board by the State School 
Commissioner — said examination to be upon the 
subjects taught in the common schools, upon the 
science and theory of common school teaching and 
government, and upon such other subjects as the 
State School Commissioner may deem proper. The 
said County Board of Education shall then elect 
such applicant County School Commissioner, who 
has stood satisfactory examination, taking into con- 
sideration the moral character, business qualifica- 
tions, and general availability of each applicant. 
The County School Commissioner so elected shall be 
required to give bond with good security payable to 
the County Board of Education, conditioned upon 
the faithful performance of his duty under the law, 
the amount and sufficiency of the security to be judged 
by the County Board of Education. 

Sec. 23. Before entering upon the discharge of his J^^^gQf 
official duties, the said Commissioner shall take and i§87, page 
subscribe to the same oath required of the other offi- 
cers of this State. 



75. 



Common School Laws. 19 

^s?7^ °^ Sec. 24. The Countv School Commissioner mav Removal 

losi, ' - . irom onice. 

i)age75. be removed from office before the expiration of his 

term by a majority vote of the Board of Education For what 
for inefficiency, incapacity, neglect of duty, or mal- '^^"^^* 
feasance or corruption in office; provided, that any 
Commissioner so removed shall have the right of 
appeal from the action of the County Board to the Appeal. 
State School Commissioner, and from the State 
School Commissioner to the State Board of Educa- 
tion. 

Sec. 25. Should there be a vacancy in the office vacancy, 
of County School Commissioner, by resignation or 
otherwise, an examination and election for the re- 
mainder of the vacant term shall be held in the same 
manner, and by the same authorities, as for that of 
a full term. 

A_.„-r Sec. 26. That the Countv Commissioner shall con- -r, ,. 

10-, ■ 1 • . ' . . - Duties of 

l8^^, __ stitute the nieaium ot communication between the Co. School 
State School Commissioner and the subordinate sioneT.^^' 
school officers ; that he shall visit each school in his yis^ts 
county at least once during the school term, or twice schools, 
if practicable, and oftener if ordered by the Board, 
and without notice to the teachers, for the purpose 
of instructing its management and the modes of in- 
struction, and of giving such advice and making 
such suggestions as shall tend to elevate it in char- Agent of 
acter and efficiency. He shall be the agent of the Boar/in 
County Board in procuring such school furniture, fumitur^e^ 
apparatus, and educational requisites as they may apparatus. 
order to be purchased, and shall see that none but 
the prescribed text-books are used by the pupils ; 
that it shall be his duty to audit all accounts of Accounts. 
teachers and others before an application is made 
to the County Board for an order for payment, and 
that the said County Commissioner shall procure a 
book, in which he shall keep a record of his official ^^^ 
.acts, which, together with all the books, papers and records. 



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Common School Laws. 



Seal on 

teachers' 

license. 



Compen- 
sation of 
County 
School 
Commis- 
sioner. 



Claim for 
services 
verified by 
affidavit 
and audit- 
ted by Co. 
Board of 
Education. 



How paid. 



Office in 
court- 
house if 
there is 
sufficient 
room. 



property appertaining to his office, he shall turn over, 
on his resignation, or at the expiration of his official 
term, to his successor. 

It shall be the duty of every County School isw! ° 
Commissioner in this State to place upon all teachers' ^^^^ '^'^' 
license issued b)^ them the seal of the Board of Edu- 
cation of the county for which they are commissioner. 

Sec. 2y. That the said County Commissioner shall Acts of 
receive such compensation as the County Board may plge 77^ 
allow him, not to exceed three dollars per day, to be 
determined by the County Board of Education, for 
each day actually employed in the discharge of his 
official duties, the same to be paid out of the educa- 
tional fund furnished to the county. His claim for 
services shall be presented in the form of an account 
against the County Board of Education, and shall 
be verified by affidavit, to the effect that the said 
account is just and true ; that the service therein: 
named was honestly and faithfully rendered, and 
that the sum therein claimed is rightfully due and 
remains unpaid. When said account shall have 
been duly audited and approved by the County 
Board, the said commissioner shall retain his pay out 
of the revenue aforesaid ; provided, that the County 
Board of Education shall determine the number of 
days in each year in which said County Commissioner 
may labor in the performance of the duties required 
of him. 

Sec. 28. That it shall be the duty of the county Acts of 
authoricies of the different counties of this State tOp^^^^g^^ 
furnish the County School Commissioners thereof an 
office in the court-house thereof ; provided, there is 
sufficient room in said court-house after furnishing 
the county officers of such county with offices as now 
provided by law. 



Com m on ScJi ool La ws. 



21 



Acts of 
18S7, 
page 81. 



Acts of 
1S87, 
page 81. 



Duties of 
'County 
School' 
Coram is- 
■sioner 
found in 
other sec- 
tions. 



Sec. 29. That County School Commissioners and 
members of the County Boards of Education shall be 
empowered and authorized to administer such oaths 
as may be necessary in transacting school business, 
or in conducting investigations before the County 
Boards when sitting as judicial tribunals for deter- 
mining controversies arising under school laws. 

Sec. 30. That it shall be the duty of the County 
School Commissioner of each of the counties of this 
State to m.ake a report of the school operations of the 
preceding year to the grand jury, at the spring term 
of the court, and to place his books before them for 
examination ; and in making up the general present- 
ments, it shall be the duty of the jury to take proper 
notice of the matters thus brou2;ht to their attention. 



School 
officers au- 
thorized to 
administer 
oaths. 



Report and 
books of 
County 
School 
Commis- 
sioner 
submitted 
to grand 
jury. 



County School Commissioner is secretar}- of County Board of 
Education (Sec. 16) ; issues certificates to School Trustees (Sec. 
18) ; forwards appeals, in writing, from decision of County 
Board of Education to State School Commissioner (Sec. 20) ; 
places seal in all teachers' licenses issued by him (Sec. 26) ; 
makes monthly statements to State School Commissioner (Sec. 
33) ; operates institutes (Sec. 42) ; examines applicants for 
license to teach (Sec. 43.) 

County School Commissioner — Election of is certified by 
secretary of meeting (Sec. 15.) 



22 



Common School Laws. 



PART V. 
FINANCIAL. 



School 
fund paid 
directly 
into Treas- 
ury and 
used only 
for school 
purposes. 



Apportion- 
ment of 
school 1 
fund. 

Proportion 
of each 
county to 
be placed 
to its credit 
by State 
Treasurer 
monthly. 



How pro- 
portion to 
be deter- 
mined. 



Items 
chargeable 
to general 
fund to be 
first de- 
ducted. 



Monthly 
statements 
by County 
School 
Commis- 
sioners of 
sums due 
and unpaid 
by County 
Board. 



Sec. 31. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of 
the same, That beginning with the taxes for the year 
1895, all moneys belonging to the common school 
fund of the State, including poll taxes and specific 
taxes, shall be paid direct into the State Treasury in 
like manner as other State taxes are paid, and said 
common school fund shall be used for no other 'than 
common school purposes, as provided by law. 

Sec. 32. That from and after the first day of Janu- 
ary, 1899, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the 
Treasurer of the State shall place to the credit of each 
county in the State, on his books, its proportionate 
part of the common school fund in the treasury 
on the first day of each month, such proportion- 
ate part to be determined by the State School 
Commissioner, the Comptroller-General, and the 
Treasurer, and to be based upon the proportion which 
the school population in each county bears to the 
school population in the State as shown by the last 
school census ; provided, however, that the salaries of 
the State School Commissioner and his clerk or 
clerks, and the expenses of his office, and any other 
items properly chargeable under the law to the 
general school fund, shall be deducted out of the said 
fund before making the aforesaid apportionment to 
the counties. 

Sec. 33. That the County School Commissioner of 
each county shall, under the approval of the County 
Board of Education, transmit to the State School 
Commissioner an itemized statement of the various 
sums due and unpaid by the County Board of Educa- 



Acts of 
1887, 
page 80. 

Amended 
Acts of 
1888, 
page 45. 



Amended 
Acts of 
189-i, 
page 60. 



Acts of 
1887, 
page 70. 



Amended 
Acts of 
1894, 
page 67. 



Acts of 
1887, 
page 79. 



Amended 
Acts of 
1898. 
page 70. 



Common School Laws. 23 

aSso*?^'^ ation on said several dates mentioned in section 32, 

1893, _ whether the same be for teachers' salaries, for pay of 

page . ^^^ County School Commissioner, or for any other 

item of expense properh^ chargeable mider the law of 

. , , the Countv Board of Education : and when said item- „., 

Amended , ' , ' When 

Acts of ized statements have been approved by the State statement 
page 60. School Commissioner and presented to the Governor, ISd^pre^. 
the Governor shall issue his warrants upon the Treas- ^^^rrant t<> 
urer for all the funds standing to the credit of each of t>e drawn. 
the several counties upon the books of the Treas- 
urer, or for such part thereof as may be needed to 
liquidate the indebtedness of the County Board of 
Education of such countv, as show^n by each item- „ 

■' . ^ -^ — ^ Payment 

ized statement aforesaid. And the State Treasurer ot money 
shall, upon the presentation of the warrants afore- warrants, 
said, draw his checks for the amounts of said war- 
rants in favor of the County School Commissioners ^. . 

11 o 01 ^ r^ DisDurse- 

ot the several counties, and the State School Com-mentby 
missioner shall immediately transmit said checks to schoof 
the several County School Commissioners, who shall 
promptly disburse the money so received in payment 
of the sums set out in the itemized statement afore- 
said ; and if the money is not sufficient to pay said n^inM- 
sums in full, then it shall be prorated among the fid^Ued-^^ 
^ ^ various items ; provided, that the expenses of admin- ness. 

3890, _ istration for each m.onth shall first be paid in full, 
^^°^ ' * and the County Boards of Education are hereby au- when 

thorized to make their contracts in such manner that ™nde7con- 
the amounts payable to teachers for services rendered [''I'^J^g^g*^ 
shall becom.e due and payable monthly. 
1887^° Sec. 34. That beginning with January ist, 1895, 

page 78. ^^^^ continuing thereafter, the school year shall be ^^5°°^ 

coincident with the calendar year, to wit : from coincident 

1 r J 1 With calen- 

January ist to December 31st thereafter, and the dar year. 
State School Commissioner, State Treasurer, and 
Comptroller-General shaU, on or before the first 
Tuesday in December each year, begining in 1894, 



commis- 
sioners. 



24 



Common School Laws. 



Estimate 
of entire 
school 
tund tor 
ensuing 
3'ear. 

County 
School 
Commis- 
sioners to 
be notified 
of their 
proportion 



County 
Boards to 
arrange for 
operation 
of schools. 



Time of 
operating 
schools left 
to County 
Boards. 



Schools 
under 
special or 
local laws 
not 
affected. 



Local 

School 

laws. 



Warrants 

and checks 

to be issued 

without 

requiring 

itemized 

statements 



or as soon thereafter as practicable, make an esti- 
mate of the entire common school fund of the State 
for the next succeeding school year, and shall at 
once communicate in writing to the County School 
Commissioner of each county the amount of money 
that will be payable to his county; and on the firsv 
Tuesday in January in each year, or as soon there- 
after as practicable, each County Board of Educa- 
tion shall meet and make the necessary arrange- 
ments for placing the schools in operation for the 
next school year, and shall have full authority in 
their discretion either to fix salaries for the payment 
of teachers, or to pay them according to the enroll- 
ment or attendance ; provided, that nothing in this 
Act shall be construed to affect the right of the re- 
spective counties of the State to select the time of 
operating their schools, which shall be left entirely 
to the County Boards of Education, nor shall it affect 
or change the time of operating their schools under 
any special or local laws in any county in this State; 
provided further, it shall not affect the monthly pay- 
ments of teachers as by this Act directed. 

Sec. 35. That in those counties having local school 
laws where the schools are sustained by local taxation 
for a period of five months or more, the State School 
Commissioner shall, on the first day of each month, or 
as soon tliereafter as practicable, notify the Governor 
of the amount of funds standing to the credit of each 
of such counties on the books of the Terasurer on said 
dates, and thereupon the Governor shall issue 
his warrants for said sums and the Treasurer shall 
draw his checks for said sums without requiring the 
itemized statements as provided in section 33 ; and 
the State School Commissioner shall immediately 
transmit said checks to the officer under the local 
school svstem authorized to receive its funds, and 



Amended 
Acts of 
1893, 
page 59. 

Amended 
Acts of 
1S94, 
page 59. 



Amended 
Acts of 
1S94, 
page 61. 



Acts of 
1893. 
page 60. 

Amended 
Acts of 
1894 
page 62. 



Common School Laws. 25 

■i 

the State School Commissioner shall, in like man- 
ner, pay over to the proper officer under the school 
board of any town or city having a school system 
sustained by local taxation for a period of five 
months or more, and to which he is now authorized 
by law to make direct apportionments, such propor- 
tion of the entire county fund as shown on the books 
of the Treasurer as the school population of the 
town or city bears to the population of the county, 
as shown by the last school census ; provided, that 
all children of school age resident in said county, 
and attending the public schools of such town or 
city, shah be counted in the school population of ^ . 

1 , ., 11 -11 1 , . , Estimate 01 

such town or city and be entitled to have their share school 
of such county fund paid over to the proper officer of p°p"^^^'°"- 
the school board of such town or city. 
isPlLe S^^- 36. That the school fund for each calendar ^^ , 

JM^ page 1 11 1 r 1 1 -^1 , . , To whom 

'0- year shall be a hxed and specified sum, and m order paid. 

Amended to Carry out this provision the State School Com- 
1894^ page missioncr, the Comptroller-General, and the Treas- School 
•^-- ^ urer shall, on the first Tuesday of December of each ea?hyear 
year, begining with 1894, or as soon thereafter as ff^^J^^^ 
practicable, make an estimate of what the school 
fund for the ensuing year shall be from the specific of^choof 
taxes, direct appropriations, and from any other Insuing 
sources of supply which now belong to the school ^'^^'■' 
fund or may hereafter belong to the school fund, and 
said fund, when so estimated, shall be avail- if specific 
able and payable at the time specified in this Act; short .^^^^ 
provided, that in the event that the said specific taxes Balance 
shall fall short of said estimate, then the balance ^^.l ^e 

1 .... 1 . , paid from 

necessary to meet the provisions of said estimate is any fund 
hereby authorized to be paid from any fund in the wisVap-*^' 
treasury not otherwise appropriated. propnated. 



26 Common School Laws. 

^c^tfS.°ti of Sec. 37. That when the State School Commis- f^t^ of 
fund for sioner, the Comptroller-General, and the Treasurer S2. 
year!^^ shall meet on the first Tuesday in December, or as 
soon thereafter as practicable, as provided in this Act, 
to make the estimate of the school fund provided for. 
in section 34 of this Act, they shall base said estimate 
upon the amount of school fund coming into the 
treasury for the year preceding the year for which said 
estimate is made. 
Sources Scc. 38. That for the support and maintenance of 

fund!'^"^ the common schools of this State the poll tax, special As?! jlge 
tax on shows and exhibitions, all taxes on the sale ''^' 
of spirituous and malt liquors, dividends upon the 
stock of the State in the Bank of the State of Georgfia, 
Bank of Augusta, Georgia Railroad and Banking 
Company, and such other means or moneys as now 
belong by law to the Common School Fund, one- 
half of the proceeds of the rental of the Western & 
Atlantic Railroad, or one-half of the annual net earn- 
ings of said railroad as ascertained by subtracting the 
annual cost of running and keeping up the road from 
the annual gross receipts under and change of policy 
which the State may adopt hereafter in reference to 
said railroad ; all endowments, devises, gifts, and be- 
quest made, or hereafter to be made, to the State or 
State Board of Education ; the proceeds of any com- 
mutation tax for military service ; all taxes which may 
be assessed on such domestic animals as from their 
nature and habits are destructive to other property; 
all money received by the Agricultural Department 
of this State for the inspection of oils and fertilizers 
in excess of what may be necessary to defray the ex- 
penses of said Agricultural Department; the net 
amount arising from the hire of convicts of this State, 
after all expenses that are now or may hereafter be 
made a charge upon said fund shall have been de- 



Common ScJiool Laius. 27' 

ducted from the gross amount thereof; ^^any educa- 
tional fund now belonging to the State (except the 
endowment of and debt due to the University of 
Georgia), and such other sums of money as the Leg- 
islature shall raise by taxation or otherwise from time 
to time for educational purposes, are hereby declared 
to be a common school fund; and when said com- 
mon school fund shall be received and receipted for, 
from whatever source received, it shall be the duty 
of the officer authorized by law to receive such fund 
to keep the same separate and distinct from other 
funds, and said fund shall be used for educational 
purposes and none other, and shall not be invested 
in bonds of this State, or in other stock, except when 
investment is necessary to carry out the conditions 
of an endowment, devise, gift, or bequest, and when 
taxes are paid into the treasury of the State the 
Comptroller-General shall in no case receipt a Tax- 
Collector for the same until that part of the tax so School tax 

.J. 1-1 • ^ r 11 • must be 

paid m, which was raised for school purposes, is sep- separated 
arated in amount from the gross amounts paid in. taxes° 

"•Money arising from the lease of oyster lands was made a part of 
the School Fund in 1889. 



ADDITIONAIv FUNDS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Illegal granting of diplomas by medical colleges — Fine goes 
to State treasury for educational funds. (I486 Code, VoL HI.) 

Selling or offering for sale rejected illuminating oil or fluids — 
Fine goes to public school fund of county in which prosecution 
is made. (^607 Code, Vol. III.) 

Wrongful use of branded vessels for illuminating oil or fluids 
— P'ine goes to public school fund of county in which prosecu- 
tion is made. (^608 Code, Vol. HI.) 

Cruelty to animals — One-half of fine goes to public school 
fund of county in which prosecution is made. (§704 Code, 
Vol. HI.) 

Gaming contracts — Money recovered after six months goes 
to public school fund of county in which suit is entered. (I3671 
Code, Vol. II.) 

Propertj' not returned but assessed— Overplus above amount 
due and costs goes to educational fund, subject to claim of true 
owner within four years. (I908 Code, Vol. I ) 



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Common School Laws. 



PART VL 



Long term 
schools. 



Supple- 
mental 
contracts. 



Their es- 
tablish- 
ment left to 
the discre- 
tion of 
Boards, 



Contract 
with pat- 
rons to be 
approved 
by Board. 



Pupils may 
attend dur- 
ing the pri- 
vate part of 
the term. 

Teacher's 
account, 
how made 
out. 



LONG TERM SCHOOLS —TEACHERS' RE- 
PORTS. 

Sec. 39. That whenever the Board of Education Acts of 
of any county within the State shall have entered ^|^^^ go 
into a contract with a teacher to teach a common 
school in any sub-district w^ithin its jurisdiction in 
accordance with this Act, it shall be lawful for said 
teacher to enter into a supplemental contract with 
the patrons of said school to teach a private ele- 
mentary school in connection with said common 
school, and to embrace the period allowed by law 
for the said public term ; provided, that the con- 
tracting with teachers under the provisions of this 
Act shall be left to the discretion of the several 
County Boards of Education. 

Sec. 40. That upon said private supplemental Act_s of 
contract being examined and approved by the page 82. 
Board of Education of the county in which said 
school is located, it shall be the duty of said teacher 
to enter, as pupils in said private school, all schol- 
ars of common school age (regard being had to 
separate schools as now required by law) who may 
enter said school at any time within the term or 
scholastic year of said private school. It shall be 
the duty of said teacher to keep an accurate account 
of the number of such pupils and the number of 
days actually attended by each pupil, and when 
said private schools shall have closed, said teacher 
may make out an account against the County Board 
of Education for the full number of days each of 
said pupils ma}^ have attended said schools, not to 
exceed the whole number of davs now or hereafter 



Common School Laws. 2d* 

to be prescribed by law ; provided, that nothing in 
this Act shall be so construed as to prevent any 
common school scholar from entering said school as No com- 
pupil, if the parent or guardian of said pupil shall ™h?ilrp°r?- 
elect to enter him or her for the period of the public yented 

1 • r 1 1 V r 1 "°"^ enter- 

term, and upon the merits of the common school fund ing upon 

only. That no teacher shall be contracted with under the"o^m- 
the provisions of this Act until he or she has been Knd.^^^°°^ 
duly licensed as a comm.on school teacher ; that every 
teacher contracted with under provisions of this Act Teachers 
shall be required to make the same reports and iTcen*se.° 
returns of the County School Commissioners as are j^^^g^ ^^^j^^ 
now required of teachers of common schools in this reports. 
State, and until said priA^ate schools shall have been 
taught according to contract, and said reports and re- 
turns are so made, it shall not be lawful for the Board 
of Education to pay him or her for such services as 
such teacher. 
ActsofissT, Sec. 41- That it shall be the duty of the teachers Reports oi 
page 77. ^^ make and file with the County Commissioners at teachers. 
the expiration of each term of school, a full and 
complete report of the whole number of scholars ad- 
mitted to the school during said term, distinguish- 
ing between males and females and colored and 
white, together with the names thereof and the en- 
tire and the average attendance, the branches taught, 
the number of pupils engaged in the study of each 
of the said branches, and such other statistics as he or 
she may be required to report by the County Com- 
missioner, or by the State School Commissioner, and ports called 
until such report shall have been prepared, sworn to fnade? 
and filed by said teacher as aforesaid, it shall not be lH^^^j!^ 

account 

lawful for said County Commissioner to audit the cannot be 
account of said teacher for his or her services. 



30 



Common SrJiool Laws. 



PART VII. 
COUNTY INSTITUTES. 



-County in- 
stitutes. 



Sessions. 



Sessions 
may be 
combined. 



Program. 



Operation' 
oi, etc. 

Attendance 
by teachers 



■sFines. 



Sec. 42. (An Act authorizing the State School 
Commissioner) to organize and estabhsh in each 
county in Georgia a Teachers' County Institute for 
the assembhng and instruction of the common 
school teachers of each county in the State, said 
institute to hold an annual session of- one week's 
duration in each county of Georgia irl the period of 
June, July, and August, or in such other month as 
the State School Commissioner may deem best and 
expedient ; provided, Jioivever, that the State School 
Commissioner may, in his discretion, combine the 
annual session of said institutes, or any number of 
them, so that the same may be held in any county 
designated by him; to prepare a program of ex- 
ercises, with a syllabus of each subject named in 
said program, for each day's session of said insti- 
tute ; to require County School Commissioners to 
operate, at their regular per diem, said institute, 
sessions under such general rules and regulations 
as he may deem best; to require aU persons, white 
and colored, teaching in Georgia, or having licenses 
entitling them to teach in the State, provided that 
those not teaching have not permanently retired 
from teaching; to attend all sessions of said insti- 
tutes held in the county of their residence, and per- 
form all duties required of them as members of said 
institutes, unless providentially prevented; to secure 
a prompt attendance of the teachers upon the exer- 
cises of said institutes by causing the .County School 
Commissioners and County Boards of Education to 
collect such fines from absentees as may be deemed 



Acts of 
1891, 
page 121. 



Amended 
Acts of 
1892, 
page 85. 



Amended 
Acts of 
1893. 
page 61. 



Common School Laws. 31 

just and reasonable by said Commissioners and 
Boards ; provided, that no teacher shall be fined till 
he or she has stated the cause of his or her absence, 
in writing, to said Commissioners and Boards, and 
they have duly considered the same ; provided further y 
that all money thus collected shall be used in pur- 
chasing teachers' libraries for the counties in which Separate 
said fines may be collected ; to provide separate insti- f Jr wMte^ 
tutes for the white and the colored ; to pay from the f^a1;hers'^^^ 
educational fund of each county an amount not to 
exceed twenty-five dollars per annum for the pur- 
pose of securing the services of an expert in con- ^^p^^^^- 
ducting the week's session of the institute of said ^^^^^ 
county, which expert shall be chosen by the County chosen. 
School Commissioner and County Board of Edu- 
cation, which expert shall assist in conducting the 
exercises of each annual week's session, of said insti- 
tute in the county where he is thus employed ; to ^g^^f^"^ ** 
cause all sessions of said institutes to, be held at seat, etc. 
county seats, or such other places as may be selected 
by the County School Commissioner, and allow all 
persons so desiring to attend the sessions of said 
institutes; provided, that all visitors shall be subject ^^s^*^'^^- 
to the rules and regulations of said institutes while 
attending the exercises of the same; and to pre- 
scribe from time to time such other rules and regu- 
lations as he and the County School Commissioner 
may deem best for successfully operating said in- 
stitute. 



32 Common School Laws. 



PART VIIL 

EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS FOR 
TEACHER'S LICENSE. 

Examina- Sec. 43. That the County Commissioners shall ex- 
*\°ican\s?or ^.mine all applicants for licenses to teach in their ^^tsot 
license to respective counties, giving previous public notice of 18^7, _ 
the day upon which the examinations are to take 
place, and said Commissioners shall be allowed to 
invite such persons as they may think proper to as- 
sist in these examinations. Applicants for license 
Upon what to tcach in the common schools shall be examined Amended 
examined. ^pQj-^ orthography, reading, writing, English gram- i89o-9i 
mar, geography, arithmetic and the science and prac- ^^^^ ■^■'^^' 
tice of teaching in common schools. No license 
shall be granted any person to teach in the public 
schools, receiving money from the State, after the 
first Monday in January, 1903, who has not passed a 
satisfactory examination in physiology, and hygiene 
(physiology, which shall include with other hygiene 1901^ °^ 
the nature and effect of alcoholic drinks with other ^^^^ ^^' 
narcotics upon the human system.) Said exami- 
nations shall be held throughout the State on a 
day or days to be fixed by the State School Com- 
pafes^ques- niissioner, and by questions prepared and sent out 
tions. i~jy Yi[xn. to the County School Commissioners. The 
State School Commissioner shall also prepare and 
supply the County School Commissioner with printed 
instruction as to the grading applicants on and by 
a uniform grade, and shall fix the lowest standard 
for each class of licenses; no applicant for teacher's 
license shall be examined on any other day than 



Common School Laws. ' 3^, 

the one designated as above described, except in 
cases where the County Board of Education shall Special ex- 
order a special examination; no special examination ori?pii°^ 
sha^l be ordered by said Board except for good and ^SioSs 
sufficient reasons and to meet some special emer- ^^ t^^^hers. 
gency. In such cases the questions shall be pre- 
pared by the County School Commissioner, or by Q"'''^°^'- 
some competent person under his authority, and 
their contents shall not be made known to the ap- 
plicant or applicants until the examination actually 
commences; said examination shall be conducted 
under the same rules and regulations as are provided R^iesfor 
by law for other examinations, but the licenses granted special ex- 
shall be valid only until the next examination ordered ^oi^ 
by the State School Commissioner, and it shall not 
be lawful for the County School Commissioner of Licenses 
any county, other than that in which said special ex- 
amination is held, to indorse a license granted there- County -3 
under. The County Board of Education shall have may em -^ ■ 
power, if they deem best, to employ teachers at a ^Jg^ f/^^" 

salary. . salary. 

Sec. 44. It shall be the dutv of the County School 
Acts of Commissioners, after thorough examination of the scZof 
1887, papers submitted by applicants for licenses as 9o™™is- 

page76. tcachers, upon the examination conducted as pre- ?°ades 

scrfbed in the preceding section, to grade the appli- m?kel '"^ 
cants according to the instructions furnished them '^^""'^^ ' 
by the State School Commissioner, submitting- his ^ , a 

*-^«^^^4- J 1 ,• 1 . ^ ^ Report and 

report and recommendations thereon m writino- to recommen- 
the County Board of Education, who shall grant to fubmmed 
the apphcants licenses of the first, second or third to cTun'^y^ 
grade, to be determined by the qualifications ex- 1°/^^^^°^ 
hibited and the standard attained; provided, they tion.""^" 
shall obtain at least the lowest grade-mark fixed by Board 
the State School Commissioner for each grade ; and i^^^^^s^^- 
provided futlier, that each applicant submits ' with ^^^^^^ ^^ 
his or her examination paper satisfactory evidence Hce^ns^e^s^ 



34 Common School Laws. 

in writing of good moral character. A license of 

the first grade shall continue in force for . three 

years, a license of the second grade for two years, 

and a license of the third grade for one year, which 

said licenses shall entitle teachers holding them to 

be employed for and during the period of their 

licenses in any of the common schools of the county 

How made whcrc issued. Licenses, to be good in another 

founties county than the one in and for which they are 

gj^er^han issued, must be endorsed by the County School Com- 

which missioner of the county in which the applicant desires 

issued. . , 1 

to teach. 

All students or graduates of any school, college or 
Graduates other institution of learning shall be required to stand Acts 
required an examination as now prescribed by the general page 51. 
examina-" commou scliool laws of this State before the County 
tion. School Commissioner of each county in this State in 

which they desire to teach and get a license from the 
County School Commissioner before being permitted 
to teach in the common or public schools of such 
county ; provided, that nothing herein contained shall 
be construed to invalidate any license to teach in the 
schools in this State now held by any person. 

And all laws and parts of laws authorizing and 
entitling any student or graduate of any school, 
college or other institution of learning to teach in the 
common or public schools of this State on the cer- 
tificate or diploma from any school, college or other 
institution of learning, or the officers thereof be, and 
the same are, hereby repealed. 

Sec. 4S. After passing upon the examination ^ ^ . 

Permanent ^^ , - ^ c -j j -r • ^i • • , Acts of 

State papers as herembefore provided, if, m the opinion 01 1887, 

license. ^j^^ County School Commissioner, any one or more ^^^^ '^^' 
of them exhibit unusual merit, he shall forward such 
papers to the State School Commissioner, together 
with his certificate of the .good moral and professional 
character of the applicant, and if, in the opinion of 



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Common School Laws. ^5 

the State School Commissioner, said papers exhibit 
a sufficient degree of merit, he shah issue a permanent 
teacher's Hcense to the apphcant, whi^h Hcense shall 
be good in any county of this State, and which shah 
only be revocable by the State School Commissioner 
for good and sufficient cause. 

Acts of Sec. 46. That the County Commissioner shall have Revoca- 

power, and it shall be his duty, to revoke licenses f-^il! °* 
granted by him, or his predecessors, for incompetency, 
immorality, cruelty to pupils, or neglect of his duties, 
and the. revocation of the license of any teacher shall 
terminate the connection of said teacher with any 
school which he may have been employed to teach ; 
but any teacher so dismissed shall have the right to -Appeal, 
appeal to the County Board of Education, whose de- 
cision shall be final. 

Whoever, with intent to defraud the State or 

i^ucf, page ^^y county, town or city or any person, shall ^ foi'ge or 
falsely and fraudulently make, forge, alter or counter- license is a 
feit, or cause or procure to be falsely and fraudulently ^ °"^' 
made, forged, altered or counterfeited, or willingly aid 
or assist in falsely and fraudulently making, forging, 
altering or counterfeiting any certificate or license 
issued by any County School Commissioner of this 
State or the executive officer of any local school board 
to a teacher, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and- 
upon conviction therefor shall be punished as pre- 
scribed hy section. :233 of the Penal Code. 



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36 



Common School Laws^ 



PART IX. 



SCHOOL CENSUS.. 



Enumera- 
tion of 
school pop' 
ulation 



New enu- 
meration 
may be 
orderedo 



Estimate 
from U. S. 
census. 

Enumera- 
tors of the 
school 
census. 

Their 
duties. 

Compensa- 
tion. 



Sec. 47. That it shall be the duty of the County ^ggyt °^ 
and City Boards of Education of this State to cause p^^® ^^• 
an enumeration of the children between six and 
eighteen years of age to be made under instructions 
from the State School Commissioner, in the year 
1888, and every ten years thereafter, as hereinafter 
prescribed. In the year 1893 and every ten years 
thereafter it shall be the duty of the State Board of 
Education, in the early part of the year, to have an 
estimate made from the last census taken by the au- 
thorities of the United States, of the number of chil- 
dren of school age in each county of the State, and 
in each town or city under a local school law, and if, 
from the evidence thus obtained, or from other evi- 
dence of any kind, the said Board shall become sat- 
isfied that a new enumeration of the school popula- 
tion ought to be taken for any county or counties, 
or for any town or city, or the entire State, it shall 
be their duty to order the said enumeration to be 
taken accordingly. 

Sec. 48. The different County or City Boards shall Acts of 
employ one or more competent, reliable persons to i^^'- ^^ 
take the enumeration above mentioned in their re- 
spective jurisdictions, and the person so employed 
shall go from house to house, making a thoron ■ 
canvass of the territory assigned tliem, taking the 
number of children between the ages of six and 
eighteen years, and distinguishing between the 
sexes and races. The person tlius- employed shall. 



iCommon School Laws. 37 

be known as enumerators of the school census, and 
^shall take and report any additional statistics re- 
quired by tlie State School Commissioner. They 
.^shall receive as compensation a per diem not to ex- 
■ceed two dollars in the counties, or two dollars in the 
cities, or in city and county where the same are under 
local laws, to be paid out of the school fund of the 
jurisdiction in which the work is done. They shall 
moreover, be required to make oath that the work q^^j^ 
done by^ them has been carefully and faithfully done 
according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, 
the form of oath to be prescribed by the State School 
Commissioner; provided, that nothing herein con- county 
tained shall be construed to prevent the County gchooi.^. 
Boards from employing the County School Commis- sioner may 
sioners to do the work contemplated in this section, ed.^™^ °^ 

Sec. 49- The State Board of Education is hereby 
empowered to order at once a new enumeration when ^an oSS'a 
thev are in doubt as to the accuracy of the return new enu- 

% r •, 1 i .1 J. meration. 

made from any county or city; but the enumerators 
first making their return shall receive no compensation 
in case it is found their enumeration was not correct. 
In case their enumeration is verified by the second 

x^3,V tor SGC" 

enumeration, then both shall be paid, but the amount ond enu- 
paid them shall be deducted from the school fund ap- "^''^tion. 
propriated to this special territory. 

Sec. 50. The respective County or City Boards are ^^^ ^^^^_ 
hereby empowered to fix, within the limits prescribed tion of enu- 
above, the per diem- compensation of the enumerators '"^''^tors. 
'of the school census employed by them. 

(In section 35, page 25, will be found the following 
matter relating to school census : 

"All children of school age resident in said county 
and attending the public schools of such town or city, 
shall be counted in the school population of such town 
or city, and be entitled to have their share of such 
county fund paid over to the proper officer of the 
■school board of such town or city.") 



38 



■ Commo?i Scltool Laivs. 



PART X. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Admission to common schools — Manual labor schools 
— Evening schools — Exemption of school property 
from taxation — Forfeiture of school fund — Forfeit- 
ure in past years — Local school systems — Scholastic 
month, number of days in. 



Admission 
gratuitious 
to all chil- 
dren of 
school age. 



Separate 
schools for 
white and 
colored. 



Pupils 
crossing 
sub-district 
or county 
line. 



Teachers' 
accounts 
for line- 
schools. 



Manual la- 
bor schools 



Sec. 51. That admission to all common schools of ^^tsoi 
this State shall be gratuitous to all 'the children be- ^'^^^^^ ^^ 
tween the ages of six and eighteen years residing in 
the subdistricts in which the schools are located; 
provided, that colored and white children shall not at- 
tend the same school ; and no teacher receiving or 
teaching white and colored pupils in the same school 
shall be allowed any compensation at all out of the 
common school fund. In special cases, to meet the 
obvious demands of convenience, children residing in 
one subdistrict may, by express permission of the 
County Board, attend the common schools of another 
.subdistrict ; and when a common school is located near 
a county line, children from an adjoining county, in 
cases where convenience requires, may, by concurrent ■ 
consent of the County Boards of the respective coun- 
ties, be permitted to attend the school, and in such 
cases, the teacher shall make out two accounts for his 
services, one against each County Board, in amount 
proportioned to the number of children in the school 
from the respective counties. 

Sec. 52. That the County Board of Education shall Actsoi 

18S7 

have power to organize in each county one or more pag4 ts-. 



page 78. 



Common School Laws. 39 

manual labor schools on such a plan as shall be self- 
sustaining; provided, that the plan be first submitted 
to and approved by the State Board of Education. 
Acts of ^^'^^ 53- 1'hat the Board of Education of any Evening 

188Y, county shall have the power to establish, at such ^^^°°^^" 

places as they may deem proper, within the limits 
of their jurisdiction, a suitable number of evening 
schools for the instruction of such youth over 
twelve years of age as are prevented by their daily 
avocations from attending day schools, subject to such 
regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of 
this Act and the instructions issued under it by the 
State School Commissioner, as said Board, from time 
to time, may adopt for the government thereof. 
Acts of Sec. 54. That whenever a County Board of Educa- ^ , . 

1887, ,• ^ J r -nj ^- r -^ i 11 i Forfeiture 

page 79. tiou, or Board ot Education of any city, shall here- of school 
after fail in any year to make arrangements to put relieved. "''^ 
schools in operation, said county, or city, as the case 
may be, shall forfeit all right to participation in the 
school fund of that year, unless the failure to arrange 
for schools was from providential cause, or other 
good and sufficient reason, the sufficiency of the rea- 
son to be judged of by the State Board of Education. 
Acts of Sec. 55. That any county or city, which has failed in^pSt"*^^ 

page 79. to put scliools in Operation in any past year, and has ^^^'^^^ 
never received its pru rata part of the State school 
fund for that year, shall still be entitled to receive 
through the properly constituted authorities of the 
county or city that pro rata; provided, that the 
County School Commissioner of such county shall 
receive no compensation from the school fund of said 
county for such year, except for services rendered in 
taking the enumeration of the school population. 
^87^°^ Sec. 56. That each and every lot or parcel of land Exemption, 

page 78. which has been or may be hereafter obtained by pur- property 
chase, or in any other way, by any County Board of J[°JJ^ ^^^^" 
Education for the use of common schools, together 



-40 ' Common School Laivs. 

with any school building that may have been or shall 
be erected thereon, and all school furniture shall be 
exempt from all taxes, State and county, and from 
levy and sale under any execution or other writ or or- 
der in the nature of an execution; provided, that 
the lot of land so exempted shall not exceed four 
acres, and if there be any excess over that number of 
acres, then that portion, not to exceed four acres, 
most convenient for school purposes, shall be exempt 
as aforesaid, the exempted portion to be set off by 
order of the County Board. 
_ , Sec. S7- That from and after the passaefe of this , ^ , 

Twenty . ^' 111 in • 1 1 Acts of 

schooldays Act, twenty school days shall constitute and be i896. 
monthr^^^'^ deemed and treated as a scholastic month in all the 
public schocfis of this State. 

Sec. 58. That nothing^ in this Act shall be so con- 

T \ A cts o 

sc°hooi sys- strued as to prevent any city with a population is87, 
terns. greater than two thousand inhabitants, or any county p^^^^^- 

or town under authority of the General Assembly of 
this State, from organizing a public school system 
independent of this system, or to preven,t the said in- 
dependent org'anization from drawing its pro rata 
share of all educational funds raised by the State; 
prcvidcd, the chief executive officer of such independ- 
ent organization shall make the same regular reports 
to the State School Commissioner as are required 
from the County Commissioners by this Act; pro- 
■vided further, that nothing contained in this Act shall 
be construed to annul or repeal any local law now of 
force in any city or county in this State providing for 
the organization and maintenance of the common or 
public schools in such city or county. 



Common School Laws. 41 

PART XL 
GENERAL LAWS. 

LOCAL TAXATION BY COUNTIES FOR 
COMMON SCHOOLS. 

An Act to provide for local taxation by counties for 
the support of common schools, and for other pur- 
poses. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of the State of Georgia, That from and after the ^zfhT 
Acts of passage of this Act a local tax to supplement the ^^''^^^' 
h. State tax in support of the common schools, may be 
levied and collected in any county in this State in 
which a county school system is not already in ex- 
istence in the following manner, to wit : 

Whenever two successive grand juries of the Recom- 
county shall recommend in their general present- P^^f^^^^^ 
nients that a local tax in said county shall be levied jurfes. 
to supplement the State tax in support of the com- 
mion schools of the county, the Ordinary of said 
countv shall order an election to be held, after sfiv- Election to 

' , ,, . 1 - , . p determme. 

mg public notice thereof once a week for four 
weeks, in the paper in which the sheriff's advertise- 
ments are published, and by posting the notice at 
the court-house door for at least four weeks previous 
to the time fixed for said election. Said election ^"^^^ ^^^ 

election. 

Siiall be held under the same rules and regulations 
as those governing the election of county officers, 
and all qualified voters of the county, and none ^ ,, , 

1 1 1-1 -1 11 1 1 T Ballots 

others, shall be allowed to vote at the same, in 
said election the ballots shall have printed or writ- 



42 Common ScJiool Laivs. 

ten upon them the words, ''For Local Taxation for 
PiibHc Schools/' or ''Against Local Taxation for 
Public Schools." The managers of the election 
Consoiida- shall Consolidate the votes as now provided in elec- 
votes°^ tions for county officers, and shall then file the re- 
turns with the Ordinary, who shall declare the r/e- 
Deciara- sult. If two thirds of the persons qualified to vote- 
resufts. at said election have voted for local taxation for 
public schools, the Ordinary shall certify the same 
Effect of in writing to the County Board of Education. The 
County Board of Education shall then, ai a regular 
meeting, or at a special meeting, of which due no- 
tice has been given to each member, proceed by 
order or resolution to lew a tax not exceeding: one 
fourth of one per cent, ad valorem upon all tne tax- 
Amount of aL)le property of the county as shall appear by the 
tax, etc. county digest. The County School Commissioners 
shall make out a certified copy of the order or reso- 
lution, fixing the rate of said tax, and shall deliver 
Its coiiec- the same to the Tax-Collector of the county on or 
tion, etc. before the first day of September in each year, and 
the Tax-Collector shall collect said school tax ac- 
cording to the vote so levied in the same manner as 
other county taxes are collected, and he shall 
promptly pay over the funds so arising to the 
County School Commissioner, who shall receive and 
hold the same subject to be applied by the County 
f^nds^ School Board of Education for the support of the 
common schools of the county in addition and sup- 
plementary to the funds received from tlie State,, 
and said tax may be levied and collected from year 

General •' . . , , . , i i i- 

tax with- to year, as above provided, without holding any 
efection. ^"^ Other election for that purpose ; provided, that any 
where^ couuty ill whicli a county school system is already 
funds in existence, but where the funds, as now provided 

insuiiicient . ' sr 

may have by law, are insufficient, in the opinion of the County 
theAcf.° Board of Education, for the support of the schools. 



Common School Laivs. 43 

may obtain the benefits of this Act by complying 
with all the provisions of the same. 

Sec. 2. Be it likewise enacted, That if there shall Towns with 
be in the county an incorporated town, or town hav- su?ta?ned 
ing a local school system of its own, sustained by \l^^^?-^ 
local taxation, in addition to its quota of funds re- not ai- "* 
ceived from the State, the residents of said incor- *^^^^^- 
porated town or towns shall not vote in the election 
held as aforesaid, nor shall the taxable property em- 
braced within the corporate limits of said town or 
towns be subject to the county school tax levied as 
aforesaid. 

Sec. 3. Be it likewise enacted. That in determin- Method of 
ing whether two thirds of the qualified voters have fni^'^™^"" 
voted for local taxation lor common schools at the Jl^^y^^f/g 
election held as aforesaid, the registration lists last majority 
completed before the election shall be considered 
the correct enumeration of the qualified voters in 
those counties having registration laws, and the 
number of names of citizens appearing upon the 
books of the Tax-Collector as having paid their poll 
or property tax, if any, for the preceding year, shall 
be considered the correct enurneration of the quali- 
fied voters in those counties not having registration 
laws. 

Sec. 4. Be it likewise enacted. That all laws and 
parts of laws m conflict with this Act are hereby 
repealed. 

Approved September 16, 1891. 



44 Common School Laws. 



SETTING APART A DAY AS "ARBOR DAY." 

An Act to encourage tree-planting, and to conserve 
the forests of the State by setting apart the first 
Friday in December as "Arbor Day," and for 
other purposes. 

Section i. The General Assembly of the State of fs^ctJi, 
f ulsday in Georgia do enact, That the first Friday in Decem- P^s^^ig, 
^Arbor'^^'^ ber in each year shall be set apart and consecrated 
Day." as a day for tree-planting, and shall be known 

throughout tire State as "Arbor Day." 
Observ- Scc. 2. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the 

.anceof. Quty of the State School Commissioner to take the 
matter of the observance of "Arbor Day" by the 
public, under his general supervision, and through 
the County School Commissioners to cause the pub- 
lic schools of the State to observe "Arbor Day" as 
tde superintendents and teachers may think best, 
in order to show the pupils the value and beauty 
of forestry by practical tree-planting on school, 
church, and other public lots, lawns, as well as on 
the public highways. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and 
parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the 
.same are, herebj^ repealed. 

Approved December 16, 1890. 



Common School Laws. 45- 



REGLTLATING SALARY OF COUNTY 

SCHOOL COMMISSIONER IN 

CERTAIN INSTANCES. 

An Act to provide for the payment of a salary to 
County School Commissioners in lieu of a per 
diem in certain instances, and for other purposes. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly in counties- 
Acts of oi the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by SoSTf^sLx- 
page 71. authority of the same, That from and after the s^n5°o"r 
passage of this Act, County Boards of Education more the 
in counties having a population of more than sixty Educat°ion 
thousand inhabitants, shall be authorized • and em- Sie^(?(fifnty. 
powered to pay the County School Commissioners School 
of such counties such salary in lieu of a per diem, as sionera 
the said County Boards of Education shall fix, not to^Seed* 
to exceed the sum of eis^hteen hundred dollars per ?^^^j^^? 

=> ^ hundred 

annum. dollars per. 

Sec. 2. Be it likewise enacted by authority of the ^^^^' 
same. That all laws and parts of laws m conflict 
with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 



46 Common School Laws. 

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE TO BE 
TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

An Act to provide for the teaching of physioloy and Acts of 
hygiene (physiology, which shall include with other 54. ' ^^^^ 
hygiene the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks 
and other narcotics upon the human system) in the 
public schools in Georgia; to provide a penalty in 
case any Board of Education, in city or county, fails 
to provide for the teaching of the same, and requir- 
ing all teachers to stand a satisfactory examination 
upon said subject as for other subjects. 

P'?biic Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 

"Scnools, 61" 

,iects of ai- of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by 
d?inks^ and authority of the same, That the nature of alcoholic 
^obe^^'^^' drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as to 
taught in. their effects upon the human system in connection 
with the several divisions of the subject of physiology 
and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of 
study taught in common or public schools in the State 
of Georgia, and shall be studied and taught as thor- 
oughly and in the same manner as other like required 
branches are in said schools. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of county and city 
and hy-°^^ Superintendents of schools receiving aid from the State 
faught ^°^ to report to the State School Commissioner any fail- 
"~ ures or neglect on the part of the Boards of Education 
to make provision for instruction of all pupils in any 
or all of the schools under their jurisdiction, in phys- 
iology and hygiene (physiology, which shall include 
with other hygiene the nature and effects of alcoholic 
drinks and other narcotics upon the human system), 
and the Board of Education of each county of this 



Common School Laws. 47 

;State shall adopt proper rules to carry the provisions 
of this law into effect. 

Sec. 3. No license shall be granted any person to Examina- 
teach in the public schools, receiving money from the feachers. 
State, after the first Monday in January, 1903, who has 
not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology, 
and hygiene (physiology, which shall include with 
other hygiene the nature and effect of alcoholic 
drinks with other narcotics upon the human system.) 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws in con- Repealing 
•flict with this Act are hereby repealed. clause. 

Approved December 17, 190 1. 



48 Common School Laws. 



SCHOOL BOOKS— BOARDS OF EDUCATION 
MAY CONTRACT THEREFOR. 

An x\ct to authorize county, city and town boards of 
education of the several counties, cities and towns,, 
under proper rules and regulations, to prescribe 
and regulate the manner of making changes of 
books, and correct reports of the same to the State 
School Commissioner, a:nd for other purposes. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by 
authority of the same. That in order to prevent ex- 
cessive rates of charges for school books that may be 
used in any of the common or public schools of the 
State, the county boards of education of the several 
counties in the State of Georgia shall be and they are, 
hereby authorized to purchase directly of the pub- 
lishers such books as may be needed or adopted for 
said schools of their respective counties, and said 
board shall have authority to supply the same to the 
patrons and pupils of said schools at cost, or at such 
advance thereon as shall be sufficient to defray the 
Boards of expense of handling. Said board shall have power 
Education ^^ contract with local merchants or others for the 
handle. J supply of said books, to be retailed at stipulated prices, 
and, if deemed necessary, they shall require such mer- 
chant, or other person so contracted with, to give 
bond in such sum as the board may determine to be 
necessary, in each instance, for the faithful perform- 
ance of said contract. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
said. That the several county boards that may pur- 
chase books as above provided, or such merchant oi 
other person with whom they may contract for the 
purchase and retail sale thereof, may have authority 



Common School Laios. 49 

to repurchase such books from any child, its parent 
or guardian, who may desire to change his or her resi- 
dence to a different county of this State, if thereby 
the said child should be required to procure other and 
different books, a proper percentage of deduction 
being made in each instance for wear and tear of 
books so repurchased. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- Books may 
said. That in cases where said boards of education J^o pupi??. 
shall purchase the books needed in said schools under 
their control, as herein provided for, they may rent 
the same to the pupils at such fees, or for such 
charges as they may deem just and proper, and the 
boards may make all proper rules to insure the pay- 
ment of said fees and charges and proper care in the 
preservation of said books. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That the several Copies of 
county boards of education shall file with the State to^eTild 
Board of Education copies of all contracts for school Bo^rd^of ^ 
books now existing, within thirty days from tins Act ; Education. 
and copies of all future contracts for school books en- 
tered into by said county boards, shall likewise be 
filed with said State Board within ten days after the 
same have been entered into. 

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted. That no county Notice re- 
board of education shall be allowed to change or re- quired of 
new any contract for the supply of school books be- to change 
fore the expiration of five years from the time tha; ^"^ ''^^e^^- 
such a contract may be made, as above provided for, 
without first giving sixty days' notice of the intention 
so to change or renew said contract in one or more 
of the newspapers published in the county in which 
such change or renewal shall be made, and if no news- 
paper is published in said county, then by publish- 
ing said notice in the newspaper in which the adver- 
tisements of sheriff's sales for said county are pub- 
lished; sixty days' notice of such intended change or 



^^ Common School Laws. 

renewal shall also be given by said county board to 
the publishers or dealers with whom the contract of 
the time thereof may be of force ; and no county board 
shall make such change or renewal except on a vote 
of three fourths of its members present in session, 
should such change be desired at any time during the 
five years covered by original contract. 

Sec. 6. [This section required county boards of edu- 
cation to make annual reports of the common school 
books, numbers, prices, etc. Repealed. See Acts 1900, 
page 65.] 

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the several 
Contracts boards of education of the cities and towns of the 
towns. State, may, if they severally, or any of them, so desire, 
exercise any or all of the powers by this Act conferred 
upon the boards of education of the counties of the 
State ; and in such event, the terms of this Act, so far 
as necessary to carry into effect the action of such 
city and town boards of education, are hereby made 
applicable. 

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all laws and 
parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
are, hereby repealed. 

Approved December 16, 1897. 



Common School Laws. 51 



PART XII. 



IvIST OF STATE EDUCATlONAIv INSTITUTIONS. 



Name. Location. Principal 

University of Georgia Athens Walter B. Hill,Chanc3llor. 

Georgia School of Technology.. .Atlanta Lyman Hall, President. 

Ga. Normal & Industrial College. .Milledgeville. J. Harris Chappell, Prep. 

State Normal School Athens E. C. Branson, President. 

N. Georgia Agricultural College.. Dahlonega . . . .Joseph S. Stewart Pres. 

Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring. . . W. O. Connor, Principal. 

Georgia Academy for the Blind. .Macoa Thos. U. Conner, Principal. 

Ga. State Industrial College . . . .College R. R. Wright, President. 



INDEX. 



Appeal to County Board of Education ?5 

Appeals to State School Commissioner 10 19 

Appeals to State Board of Education <> 8 19 

Apportionment of School Fund 22 23 25 26 

A rbor Day "^"^ 

Attorney-General, member of State Board of Education 5 

Bible cannot be excluded from common schools 17 

Books, Adoption of text-books 16 

Books, Contracts for text-books ^8 

Census , School ^ ^^ 

Clerk of State School Commissioner 5 10 

Clerk Superior Court certifies /election of members County Board Edu- 

4-- ^ 12 

cation ' -^ 

Comptroller-General, member of State Board of Education. . . 5 

Contracts with teachers 1 ^ '^^ ^^ 

County Board of Education 1 1 19 33 

County Board of Education, a judicial tribunal 10 24 

County Board of Education, members can administer oaths 21 

County Institutes • ^^ 

County Line, pupils crossing .• ■■ ■ ^^ 

County School Commissioner, claims for services, how made and paid. 20 

County School Commissioner, duties of 19 22 23 32 33 35 

County School Commissioner, examination of, bond, oath 18 

County School Commissioner, makes monthly report 22 

County School Commissioner, office to be furnished • • 20 

County School Commissioner, salary of in certain instances -45 

Disbursement of School Fund -^ 

Examination of applicants for teacher's license 32 

Exemption'of school property fromJtaxation S9 

Expenses'of Department of ^Education 9 



54 Index. 

Evening schools 39 

General Assembly, may invest donations 6 

General Assembly, may substitute other officers for State School Com- 
missioner , 8 

Grand Jury, elects, recommends removal of, members of County Board 

of Education 11 12 

Grand Jury receives report of County School Commissioner 21 

Governor of State, issues warrants 24 

Governor of State, member of State Board of Education 5 

Itemized expense account of Department of Education 10 

Itemized statements of County School Commissioners ... 22 

Judges of Superior Court, removal and appointment of members of 

County Board of Education by 12 

License, each teacher must hold 29 34 

License, granted by Board of Education 33 

License, counterfeiting, etc 35 

License, hovi^ made good in other counties 34 

License, revocation of 35 

Local school systems 25 24 40 43 50 

Local taxation by counties for common schools 41 

Location of schools 13 

Long term schools 28 

Manual labor schools 39 

Minutes open to inspection 13 

Oaths can be administered by school officers 21 

Ordinary, can approve accounts of members of County Board of Educa- 
tion for services 12 

Physiology and Hygiene to be taught 46 

Races taught separately 16 31 38 

Reports of teachers 29 

Reports of County School Commissioners 21 22 33 

Report of State School Commissioner 9 

Salary, County Boards may employ a teacher at 24 33 

Salary of County School Commissioner in certain instances 45 

Scholastic month, definition of 40 

School census 36 

School district, each county a 11 

School property 15 



Index. 55 

School property, exemption from taxation 39 

School Fund, estimate of for ensuing year 24 25 

School Fund, sources of 26 

School Fund, disbursement of 23 

School Fund, forfeiture of 39 

School Fund, proportion of each county, how determined 22 

School Fund, tax money belonging to, to whom paid 22 

School Fund, when not sufficient to pay indebtedness of any county. . . 23 

School Funds kept separate and used only for schools 22 27 

School Grounds, four acres not taxed 40 

School Term, length and time of public, regulated by County Board of 

Education 16 24 

School year coincident with calendar year 23 

Secretary of State, member of State Board of Education 5 

Special examination of applicants for teachers' license 33 

State Board of Education, members, officers, meetings 5 

State Educational institutions, list of 51 

State (Permanent) license, how issued 34 

State School Commissioner, how chosen, duties of. 8 32 24 42 35 

Subdistrict or county line, pupils crossing 13 38 19 

Suits to be instituted by State School Commissioner 9 

Tax Collectors, report school funds separately 27 

Teachers employed by Boards of Education 13 24 33 

Teachers pay, when due 23 

Teachers, reports of 29 

Text Books, contracts for 48 

Trustees of common schools 1^ 



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